What if I told you that heavy metal and Agile have a lot in common? What if a musician could walk into a room full of Agile coaches and nobody could tell them apart? What if there are universal principles that can be applied irrespective of what you do? What if frameworks don’t actually work? Join the metalhead CEO and learn interesting things about music, Agile and life in general.

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Business Agility
Through The Eyes
of a Metalhead CEO
Dimitar Karaivanov - CEO Kanbanize

6. Marty Friedman

7. One thing I’ve noticed is that a lot of guitar hero
types have a lot of people copying them. But copying
others is not necessarily the best thing.
The only way to really become as good as someone,
is understand there is no easy way.
 The guys that come closest to me are the ones that
play in my band and have dissected those songs to
a professional level. It’s a non-mechanical approach.

8.  People want warm-up exercises and shortcuts…
there aren’t any! Get out there and play in bands
to anyone you can. That’s how you find out how to
play well. In your bedroom, you won’t have the
right stimulus to play for real and avoid f*ck-ups.

9.  Here’s a great tip: one thing you want to avoid is
playing fast unless it’s absolutely necessary. If it’s
not needed, then playing fast totally sucks.
 If you get a call from Elton John about doing some
session, he’s not going to want to hear your 8-
finger tapping arpeggios… he’ll send you straight
out the door. Sir Paul McCartney won’t want your
insane diminished sh*t either—you’ll get fired.

10. • World-class fencer
• Novelist
• Screenwriter
• Radio host
• Beer brewer
• Motivational speaker
• Commercial and
private pilot
• Iron Maiden's
Legendary Singer –
Bruce Dickinson ;)

11. https://youtu.be/C2AaxecwAlQ?t=25

12. “I'm trying to do one thing at a time
cause it's all I can manage.”
― Bruce Dickinson

13. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V1hrHiyC4Vw

14. “We surround ourselves with cotton walls
and institutions. It's a very comfortable
place to be.”
― Bruce Dickinson

15. “All growth is a leap in the dark, a
spontaneous unpremeditated act without
the benefit of experience.”
― Henry Miller

16. So, are you going to jump into
Business Agility not knowing where
you're going to land?

17. "Business Agility is the ability of your business to
effectively and efficiently satisfy its target
markets through rapid experimentation and
learning.“

18. Tip I: Mature your Kanban:

19. Tip II: Don't Pile Up Waste:
1.Customer Issues / problems
2.X...
3.Y…
4.Z…
5.New features / projects

20. Tip III: Be Fanatical About Customer Support:

21. Tip III: Be Fanatical About Customer Support:

22. Tip IV: Be Fanatical About Customer Feedback

23. Tip V: Foster Horizontal Leadership:

24. Tip VI: Convert HiPPOs to HiPOs:
Image Credit: https://liliendahl.com/2014/10/24/when-rhino-hunt-and-the-hippo-principle-makes-a-perfect-storm/

25. Tip VII: Everything is an Experiment:
An experiment is successful if you 1) learned something and
2) you have better confidence in your future actions.

26. Tip VIII: Scale Kanban in Your Org:
Company Goals
Key Initiatives
Work Items

27. Tip IX: Forget About 100% Utilization:
https://hbr.org/resources/images/article_assets/hbr/1205/R1205E_A_LG.gif

28. Tip X: Let People Closest to the Problem Solve It:

29. Tip XI: Be Inclusive, Just Like Music

30. Kanban Software for Lean Project Management
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